NFL Survivor Pool

Well, we’re down to our final week!

We have 24 players remaining and we are looking at a payout of $218 per player. (Would have been 15 players with $241 each  if we didn’t have buybacks.)

I will contact each player that makes it through week seventeen to arrange the payout. Please wait until I contact you. Obviously, Paypal is the easiest option for me. I can just send it right back to you. If you need a check instead, it’ll take a few extra days to move the money around and cut a check to you. (Tips are greatly appreciated!)

Only Sunday games this final week, so we should know by Sunday night what the final tally is. All picks due by 10am ET on Sunday.

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Penultimate week of the season is here!

All received picks have been posted. Can’t believe it, but one player didn’t submit a pick this week. If you made it through fifteen weeks, don’t you think you’d make sure you submitted a pick? linesmaker appears to be back up and running.

Eight different teams were picked by our 26 remaining players. Should be an interesting week.

Open thread below.

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The Raiders did it again!  Another upset and through fifteen weeks, we are down to 26 players. The silver and black are now responsible for 31% of all losses in the pool (139 of 449). Anyone else want to pick against them?

This week, if you want to pick in the Friday night game, I must have your pick by Friday evening at 5pm ET. All other picks are due Sunday at 10am ET.  The linesmaker feed is still all sorts of messed up, so I might have to do the odds manually again.

Happy holidays!

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Ugh, linesmaker is down this morning so the auto-picker didn’t work, so I’m using sportsbetting.com manually instead. Only one player didn’t get in a valid pick this week, so he got the Titans (top of that odds sheet).

Open thread below.

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And for the third time in the last four weeks, the Steelers choked against supposedly inferior opponents, upping to total of 39 players eliminated.

So for those clamoring about getting rid of buybacks next year, I’ve pretty much made up my mind. All of the other rules I think will stay the same.  Look at this way: Let’s assume the season is only fourteen weeks long. So we now have 48 players left, splitting a pot of $5,240. That’s roughly $109 per player.

But 16 of those remaining players used their buyback to stay in the pool. Let’s assume we didn’t have buybacks this year, so we’d have 32 players left with a payout of $113 per player. So if I get rid of buybacks, not only does it spare me the headache of having to keep track of buyback payments in addition to hundreds of picks every week, the payout of those that survive (remember, it IS a survivor pool) is actually higher!

Basically if you have buybacks, you just end up with more players splitting a bigger pot. It all evens out in the end. And like I just said, it’s a Survivor Pool. The only reason I had buybacks was to keep it running longer into the season when I first started out with much fewer players. Wouldn’t have made it much past the halfway mark of the season the first couple of years, but there’s no reason now that we’re almost guaranteed to have multiple winners after seventeen weeks.

So this week, we have both a Thursday and a Saturday night game. If you want to pick in the Thursday night game, I must have your pick by Thursday afternoon at 5pm ET. If you want to pick in the Saturday night game, I must have your pick by Saturday afternoon at 5pm ET. Anyone who picks those games will have their pick revealed as soon as the system records the final score. All other picks are due Sunday at 10am ET.

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